EP2460128A1 - Searching based on listing activity - Google Patents
Searching based on listing activityInfo
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- EP2460128A1 EP2460128A1 EP10804997A EP10804997A EP2460128A1 EP 2460128 A1 EP2460128 A1 EP 2460128A1 EP 10804997 A EP10804997 A EP 10804997A EP 10804997 A EP10804997 A EP 10804997A EP 2460128 A1 EP2460128 A1 EP 2460128A1
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- This user behavior creates a disproportionate amount of attention to listings that appear on these first pages because a first page listing improves the chances of a successful sale compared with the listings that appear on the later pages of the search results. Therefore, it becomes increasingly important to provide users with a variety of ways Io display listings at the lop of the search results (e.g., on the first page or in the first few pages of search results) to increase the likelihood of conversion (e.g., being clicked by a user).
- Figure 1 is a network diagram depicting a network system, according to one embodiment, having a client-server architecture configured for exchanging data over a network;
- Search results and listing activity search options can be customized according to listing activity and information related to particular products, listings, or advertisements. Buyers can be offered an opportunity to see low- activity listings. Sellers can be offered the opportunity to increase exposure and visibility for low-activity listings. As described in more detail below, various search options and monctization opportunities can be realized based on the various embodiments described herein.
- the user profile information can be associated with one or more contexts generated by a user or other users and maintained on the network-based provider 112, Data associated with a user profile, such as any of the data described above, may be publicly shared as determined by the originator of the data.
- users can create user preferences in their user profiles that specify the listings and ads they are interested in monitoring, based on low activity, For example, as described in more detail below, low-activity listings can be determined based on a variety of listing activity metrics described herein. Users can create user preferences in their user profiles to specify that they are interested in monitoring these low-activity listings. Based on the pre-set user preference for monitoring low-activity listings, a particular embodiment can display for the user the set of low-activity listings when the user visits the host site. Additionally, based on the pre-set user preference for monitoring low- activity listings, the particular embodiment can automatically send an email or SMS text message at periodic intervals to notify the user of the presence of the low-activity listings.
- Figure 1 also illustrates a third party application 138, executing on a third party server machine 140, as having programmatic access to the network-based marketplace 1 12 via the programmatic interface provided by the API server 124,
- the third party application 138 may, utilizing information retrieved from the network-based marketplace 112, support one or more features or functions on a website hosted by the third party,
- the third party website may, for example, provide one or more networking, marketplace or payment functions that are supported by the relevant applications of the network-based marketplace 112.
- These applications can include support for activities associated with the listing information, including storing and retrieving user notes, web sites (IJRLs), links associated with related tags, research and notes from other users and community members, related community groups, vendors, localized geographic data for listings (e.g., regional consumer purchasing patterns), and so forth, Additionally, the various applications may support social networking functions, including building and maintaining the community groups created by a user, which may be helpful in providing various types of data (e.g., reviews, notes, local sendees, consumer information, etc.) pertaining to the listing information.
- data e.g., reviews, notes, local sendees, consumer information, etc.
- Reputation application(s) 204 may allow parties that transact utilizing the network-based marketplace 1 12 to establish, build, and maintain reputations, which may be made available and published to potential trading partners.
- a toolbar installed on a browser application may be used for functions including interactive and navigation functions to create a new listing, selectively add a URL. associated with the created listing, and create notations regarding research and general matters associated with the listing. These functions can also include functions to notify users of the presence of low- aclivily listings. As described herein, an embodiment can display for users a set of low-activity listings on request or automatically send an email or SMS text message when the presence of low-activity listings is detected. Additionally, functions can provide channels or streams, which can be pulled or pushed to display the low activity listings to a user. This channel or stream can display a scrolling view of low activity listings with listing photos and titles.
- the user or listing activity engine may customize result data associated with listing search results.
- the filtering a ⁇ plication(s) 208 may generate the result data according to one or more rales provided by the network-based marketplace 112 and the user receiving the filtered result data.
- the user may only want the search results to match on item listings pertaining to item reviews from other users with a greater than 3 out of 5 stars reputation rating.
- the user may only want search results to match on item listings pertaining to item listings with a particular feature set or attribute set.
- the user may only want result data for digital cameras with equal or greater than 5 megapixels.
- each word in a phrase may be a tag linked to another listing and its associated data.
- “Canon” may be a selectable element within the user interface as a tag that results in the selector receiving more general data regarding Canon products.
- “camera” may be selected to receive more general data regarding cameras, in this case both digital and film cameras.
- Grou ⁇ (s) of users found in a community group table 316 may be selected by a user to be members of a community group having access to user profile data and an item listing associated with the electronic shopping cart.
- a filter table 318 may be used to sort and filter data associated with a listing.
- the sorted or filtered data are then stored in the result data table 307 and linked to the listing creator via a user profile identifier.
- Various types of i ⁇ lters and associated rules were discussed above with reference to the filtering applications ) 208 in Figure 2.
- Figure 4 illustrates an example embodiment of functional modules pertaining to the listing activity engine of a particular embodiment.
- the applications and associated modules may be executed within any portion of the network system 100 (e.g., the client machine 122 and the network-based marketplace 112).
- the modules discussed herein are for example only and it can be appreciated that these modules and applications may be combined into one or many modules and applications without departing from the spirit of the methods and systems described herein.
- a sample user interface 500 illustrates an example of a particular embodiment for implementing a search filter to display low-activity listings.
- Implementation of a particular embodiment as a search filter can allow users to perform a search and then to further refine their results by specific criteria. As shown in Figure 5, these specific criteria can include various characteristics of the items represented by the particular listing (e.g., price, make, transmission, etc).
- the specific criteria in the search filter can be expanded in a particular embodiment to also include a listing activity level.
- users can submit a search query that produces a search result.
- the search result includes a plurality of listings that match the parameters of the search query submitted by the user.
- an option can provide users with exclusive rights by category, attribute or keyword to find these low-activity listings. This exclusivity cannot be for too long a duration or it may cause harm to sellers, However, if that exclusivity was measured in minutes, an exclusive rights option can provide enough time for those "lucky ' ' buyers to be the first to view and reply to those hard-to-fmd items represented by the low-activity listings.
- the instructions 724 may further be transmitted or received over a network 726 via the network interface device 720, While the machine-readable medium 722 is shown in an example embodiment to be a single medium, the term “machine-readable medium” should be taken Io include a single medium or multiple media (e.g., a centralized or distributed database, and/or associated caches and servers) that store the one or more sets of instructions.
- the term “machine-readable medium” shall also be taken to include any medium that is capable of storing, encoding or carrying a set of instructions for execution by the machine and that cause the machine to perform any one or more of the methodologies of the various embodiments, or that is capable of storing, encoding or carrying data structures utilized by or associated with such a set of instructions.
- the term “machine- readable medium” shall accordingly be taken to include, but not be limited to, solid-state memories, optical media, and magnetic media.
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